depreciate
verb [I or T] /dɪˈpriː.ʃi.eɪt/Definition
› to (cause something to) lose value, especially over time: Our car depreciated (by) £1,500 in the first year we owned it. Since they set up a builder's yard next door, our house has depreciated in value. → Compare appreciateValue and price decreases
(Definition of depreciate verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Price decreases, but you might be interested in these topics from the Finance topic area:
- Amounts of money
- Banks
- Borrowers & lenders
- Borrowing & lending
- British money
- Budgeting money
- Costing little or no money
- Costing too much
- Costs & expenses
- Currencies
- Earning money
- Economics
- Estimating value
- Expensive & luxurious
- Grants & allowances
- Informal words for money
- Insurance
- Interest & capital
- Investing money
- Large amounts of money
- Mortgages & real estate
- North American money
- Paying money
- Payment methods
- Price increases
- Profits & losses
- Renting & hiring
- Renting property
- Rich and wealthy
- Rich people
- Saving money
- Small amounts of money
- Stock markets
- Taxation
- Trusts & funds
- Withdrawing money
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- bargain bin noun
- bargain noun (LOW PRICE)
- bearish adjective (FINANCE)
- cheapen verb (COST LESS)
- closeout noun
- cut-price adjective
- deduction noun (TAKING AWAY)
- deflate verb (MONEY)
- deflation noun (MONEY)
- depreciation noun
- discount noun
- discount verb (REDUCE)
- downturn noun
- freeze verb (MONEY/PROPERTY)
- knock sb/sth down phrasal verb (REDUCE PRICE)
- knock sth off (sth) phrasal verb
- put sth down phrasal verb (REDUCE)
- roll sth back phrasal verb
- slump noun
- slump verb (REDUCE SUDDENLY)
Topic:
Price decreases
Word of the Day
be under a cloud
to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
